Today Lynda Day George and Brenda Lee are 75, Max Martini is 50, and Rider Strong is 40. Today is also the birthday of Rita Moreno, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Teri Garr, Donna Mills, Hailee Steinfeld, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), Mo’Nique, John Kerry, Nikki Sixx, Xosha Roquemore, Dilip Kumar, Jon Brion, Tom Shadyac, Margaret Hoover, and the late Jean Marais, Maila Nurmi (aka Vampira), Ron Carey, Liz Smith, Gilbert Roland, Marie Windsor, who would be 100, Betsy Blair, Elizabeth Baur, Manoel de Oliveira, and Carlo Ponti. Sam Cooke and Percy Kilbride died 55 years ago in 1964. Cooke was 33. Kilbride was 76. Bettie Page died eleven years ago in 2008 at age 85. Ravi Shankar died seven years ago in 2012 at age 92.
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